“We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel”, by National Jewish Book Award-winning author, Daniel Gordis, is a fascinating, elucidating, and painful exploration of the rift that divides the world’s two largest Jewish communities: America and Israel.   In this thoroughly researched, exceptionally well-written,...

“Dreams Never Dreamed,” by Kalman Samuels (Toby Press), is the breathtaking story of Kalman and Malki Samuels, their son Yossi, and the founding of Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities.   In 1977, when Yossi was one year old,...

“Lily’s Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live” by Lily Ebert and Dov Forman is the touching, riveting, tragic, and painful story of Lily’s idyllic childhood in Hungary, followed by the indescribable horrors of the Holocaust and Auschwitz, followed by her...

The Sisters of Auschwitz, by Roxane Van Iperen, is the fascinating, heart-stopping, superbly written, terrifying, true story of two Jewish sisters from Amsterdam living under the Nazi occupation and regime.   The sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, were part of the Dutch resistance movement, saving as...

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (2021) by Lucy Adlington, is the fascinating story of female inmates (most Jewish, some not) interred in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp systems who sewed to survive.  Their story - which I believe is unknown to many - is incredible and revealing,...

A Tap on the Shoulder: Rabbi Meir Schuster and A Magical Era of Teshuva, by Yonoson Rosenblum, is the amazing biography of Rabbi Meir Tzvi Schuster z’l.  Born in the small town of Manitowoc, Wisconsin in January 1943 to non-religiously observant parents, Rabbi Schuster became...

A Fire in His Soul, The Man and His Impact on American Orthodox Jewry, by Amos Bunim (Feldheim Publishers), is the comprehensive biography of Mr. Irving M. Bunim z’l (1901-1980).   “Born in Volozhin, Lithuania, and raised in New York in a home steeped in Jewish...

Rav Noach Weinberg - Torah Revolutionary, by Yonoson Rosenblum (Mosaica Press), released in 2020, is the all-encompassing biography of R’ Noach Weinberg zt’l, founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Aish Ha’Torah. In this fascinating, thoroughly researched, all-encompassing, honest, and enlightening biography, we learn of the challenges R’...